Honors Awarded At Annual Tesh Banquet

Scott Rigden, manager of Hastings Books, Music and Video in Coeur d’Alene was named Employer of the Year, and Rita Drapeau, a janitor at Hastings, was named as Employee of the Year during the annual awards banquet of the Transitional Employment Services for the Handicapped.

TESH is a private, non-profit organization which provides vocational assistance and training, independent living assistance and residential living to disabled or disadvantaged people.

Since Hastings opened in Coeur d’Alene in December 1993, it has hired six vocational rehabilitation referrals through TESH’s Community Supported Employment program.

Drapeau, Coeur d’Alene, has been a TESH client since finishing school in 1981.

Other awards presented during the banquet went to Bernie Oakes of Wallace, who received the Art Lennon Memorial Award-Shoshone.

Lynnette Miller, Coeur d’Alene, received the first Pathways to Independence Award.

Pathways is the internal program of TESH which helps mentally disabled adults participate in independent living.

Judy Linnebach, a Gonzaga University engineering student, has received a $1,500 Alcoa Foundation Engineering Scholarship.

Linnebach, Post Falls, is a senior civil engineering major.

Sandra Salo Deutchman, Moscow, was named winning artist in the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Northwest Poets and Artists Calendar for 1996.

, DataTimes MEMO: Contact for Idaho Achievements is Sherry Adkins. Tell us about your achievements and good deeds by writing to: Achievements, The Spokesman-Review, Ste. 200, 608 Northwest Blvd., Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814. Pictures must be accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.